- 1. A provider of telecommunications service, as defined in section 476.103, offering telephone numbers to retail customers in this state shall register annually with the commission.
- 2. An applicant shall complete an application for registration on a form provided by the commission. The form shall include contact information, the approximate number of service lines provided in the state, and any other information deemed necessary by the commission.
- 3. Within five business days of the receipt of a completed application for registration, the commission shall issue a nonexclusive acknowledgment of compliance with this section. The acknowledgment shall authorize the registrant to obtain telephone numbers, interconnect with other telecommunications service providers, cross railroad rights-of-way pursuant to section 476.27, and provide telecommunications service in this state. An acknowledgment may be transferred by filing a new or updated registration form.
- 4. A registrant shall submit to the commission corrections to the information supplied in the registration form within a reasonable time after a change in circumstances, which circumstances would be required to be reported in an application for registration form.
- 5. Refusal to file and maintain an annual registration pursuant to this section is a violation of this chapter and may subject a telecommunications service provider to a civil penalty pursuant to section 476.51.
- 6. Notwithstanding this subsection, the commission shall continue to recognize the validity of, and the rights conferred upon, a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued to a telecommunications service provider by the commission prior to July 1, 2018.
2018 Acts, ch 1160, §18; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §369
Referred to in §476.1B, 476.6, 476.9, 476.10, 476.20, 476.54